Summer Symposium – Thursday, 2nd June 2005
The Hilton Hotel, Coventry

    
09.15amArrival, Registration, Coffee & Tea  
09.45amChairman’s Welcome & IntroductionAllan Karr, Chairman, PDIG 
 

Professor Roger Tredree, Vice Chairman, PDIG

 
10.00amPaSA Reorganisation  
 
  • How is PaSA being reorganised?
Howard Stokoe

Lead Category Manager, PaSA

10.40am

Supply Chain Excellence Programme

  
 
  • Update and Wave II
  • Survey of Wave I
  • What are the views of suppliers to SCEP Wave I?
  • Any lessons to be learnt?
Kirsty Docherty

Procurement Services Manager, UCLH

11.20amTea/Coffee  
11.40amCollaborative Hubs and their potential impact upon medicines procurement  
 
  • What are collaborative hubs?
  • How will they operate?
  • What impact will they have on medicines supply?

Zoe Greenwell,

Collaborative Hub Project lead, PaSA.

12.15pmKnowledge and Skills Framework  
 
  • What is the impact of Agenda for Change on NHS supply chain staff?
  • What do we mean by the term “Knowledge and Skill Frameworks”?

Richard Cattell

Director of MI and E&T, South West Region

12.45pmLunch  
2.30pmPrice controls and reimbursement strategies  
 
  • What strategies have there been towards controlling prices?
  • How does reimbursement strategies affect healthcare?

Prof David Taylor

Professor of Pharmaceutical and Public Health Policy, LSOP


3.30pmCounterfeit Medicines  
 
  • How do counterfeit medicines get into the supply chain?
  • What can we do to stop counterfeits?
Ged Lee

Group Manager, Laboratory and Licensing, MHRA